About The Book
A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Without the smug cynicism that seems to permeate most modern radical tales, this story is told with genuine hope, and a voice that never loses its connection with the mysteries of life, even in the midst of everyday tragedies. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a plaa full of los crustos in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world.

The History
Off the Map began its life as 98-page half-size zine , of which 50 copies were made by its two authors in Prague and given out to friends. A few months later, back in Olympia, a couple CrimethInc. agents doing some late-night photocopying at Kinko's happened to stumble upon one of the authors making a few more copies of OTM, and after a pleasent and lively conversation, she gave them a copy. One day and 98 pages later, a frantic search was underway to find the author, lavish her with praise, and get permission to copy and distribute OTM .

Well, CrimethInc and the authors found each other, and thus began what soon became elemental relationships for CrimethInc. Far East, with both authors becoming actively involved with CrimethInc., and since that day almost two years ago we have distributed thousands of copies of OTM for free to anyone who requested it. Over time it became clear that as copies of OTM made it out into the world, it was having a significant impact on its readers; we were soon receiving more letters and praise about OTM than any of our other publications and also requests for more copies, etc.

This book, at only $3 helps to spread the word of this great story.